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Kubuntu Gets New Backer, Parting Ways With Canonical

Phoronix: Kubuntu Gets New Backer, Parting Ways With Canonical

While some KDE users running Kubuntu were concerned following Canonical's decision to drop support for Kubuntu following the 12.04 LTS release, there's a new backer of the Kubuntu project outside of Canonical...

What exactly does Blue Systems do? I've Googled them briefly and found 2 Blue Systems and the relavent one's website didn't mention any business, just links to projects that they sponsored.

It seems to be or have been a computer shop & IT services company, that also does programming jobs (at least, that's what they registered as). The company seems to be owned by the leader(?) of the Netrunner OS project (which is based on Kubuntu).

(And there are also at least two other companies registered at the same address.)

kubuntu wasn't exactly a polished distro. it was thrown together. coupled with the clusterfuck nature of kde4, it was a rough combo.

It's much different now and it's no longer "thrown together" if you're using base packages. Overall, thanks to solid Ubuntu base it's now much more polished than anything else I've ever tried. Canonical does QA and has test farms running, so Ubuntu and Kubuntu will be better and better.

kubuntu wasn't exactly a polished distro. it was thrown together. coupled with the clusterfuck nature of kde4, it was a rough combo.

It wasn't just thrown together, it was actually worse than a default fresh install of KDE. They kept trying to integrate various Ubuntu apps/processes/features into it, and the result was always buggy.